Porch obsession

Can we move on from the porch collapse disaster? Is it possible for the press, just this once, to stop obsessing over a tragedy?

Why do the media have to sensationalize the political infighting as well as every detail of the collapse?

As a mother, I cannot imagine how it must feel to have every newscast and newspaper filled with details no one really needs to know. If only for the sake of the survivors, move on to something else.

Isn't that what news is all about?

Every day I think of the parents, friends and those attending the porch party. I can't imagine how hard it is to begin and end each day with thoughts of this tremendous loss. Yet every day, I open up the paper or turn on the news to blatant reminders with vivid details of the lives lost.

Move on. Allow people to grieve. The victims' friends and families will visit this tragedy every day for the rest of their lives. Give them some peace; they deserve it.